Television is democracy at its ugliest.

I'm a man without a corporation.

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.

You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.

Many think of memory as rote learning, a linear stuffing of the brain with facts, where understanding is irrelevant. When you teach it properly, with imagination and association, understanding becomes a part of it.

I think that in the cultural imagination, motherhood has a primacy that fatherhood just doesn't; and that's not to say that there aren't many fathers who are active and engaged and for whom that is their life's passion. But somehow, in the imagination, there's something different about maternity.

There's a really nice moment in the life of a piece of writing where the writer starts to get a feeling of it outgrowing him - or he starts to see it having a life of its own that doesn't have anything to do with his ego or his desire to 'be a good writer.'

I’ve always admired how closely someone like C.V. Kumar works with the creative team to promote a film.